From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030265AbWGaRQX (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:16:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030269AbWGaRQX (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:16:23 -0400 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:8402 "EHLO lug-owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030265AbWGaRQW (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:16:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:16:20 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Dan Oglesby Cc: Adrian Ulrich , Matthias Andree , vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Message-ID: <20060731171620.GL31121@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Oglesby , Adrian Ulrich , Matthias Andree , vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <1153760245.5735.47.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> <200607241806.k6OI6uWY006324@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <20060731125846.aafa9c7c.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060731144736.GA1389@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060731175958.1626513b.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060731162224.GJ31121@lug-owl.de> <1154364421.7964.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1154364421.7964.22.camel@localhost> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-07-31 11:47:00 -0500, Dan Oglesby wr= ote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:22 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-31 17:59:58 +0200, Adrian Ulrich wrote: > > > A colleague of mine happened to create a ~300gb filesystem and started > > > to migrate Mailboxes (Maildir-style format =3D many small files (1-3k= b)) > > > to the new LUN. At about 70% the filesystem ran out of inodes; Not a > > So preparation work wasn't done. >=20 > As someone who is currently planning to migrate ~100GB of stored mail to > the Maildirs format, it was pretty clear early on that EXT3 would not > cut it (from past and current experiences), and not just for the sake of > calculating inodes. Uh? Where did you face a problem there? With maildir, you shouldn't face any problems IMO. Even users with zillions of mails should work properly with the dir_index stuff: tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hdXX or alternatively (to start that for already existing directories): e2fsck -fD /dev/hdXX Of course, you'll always face a problem with lots of files in one directory at getdents() time (eg. opendir()/readdir()/closedir()), but this is a common limit for all filesystems. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-760= 8481 Signature of: Alles wird gut! ...und heute wirds schon ein bi=C3= =9Fchen besser. the second : --zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEzjrkHb1edYOZ4bsRAjZUAJ4jmxJQFGQSzz6CfPEbZeVAbPIUNQCeMIlB 1lhHhNKeQxAgf7hj7UsnYws= =aNZk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zROEGoKAXsG5UqGB--